This week (May 7) in 1915, the Lusitania, a British luxury liner owned by the Cunard Line, was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 123 Americans.

LONDON, May 10, 1915 (UP) - The board of trade inquiry into the loss of the Cunard liner Lusitania will begin at once. After a conference with the officers of the board of trade and Lord Mersey, who ...

LONDON, May 8, 1915 (UP) - The admiralty this afternoon said that the latest reports available indicated that only 703 of the passengers and crew of the Lusitania have been saved, and that 1,346 ...

Part 1. : The beginnings. Introduction -- The origins of ship design -- Wrought iron becomes steel -- Hulls -- Propulsion machinery in 1900 -- The watertube boiler -- Part 2. : The ships. The ...